The Stress-Free Work Day: How to Effectively Organize Your Day, Be Super Productive, Increase Your Motivation, and Get Out By 5!

By Justin Byers

Do you find your productivity and your professional advancement are challenged by workplace complexity, frequently changing goals, your own time-wasting habits, and co-workers who are... shall we say... “challenging?”

Do you leave work knowing that you could have completed much more than you did?

It’s time to take control of your day. Inside of "The Stress Free Work Day - How to Effectively Organize Your Day, Be Super Productive, Increase Your Motivation, and Get Out By 5!" you’ll find step-by-step directions to becoming your most positive and productive self. This book reveals why some days are lackluster and unproductive, while other days – you rock.

Inside, you’ll find:
- Tips and tricks to make every day more manageable and enjoyable
- Simple habits you can easily adopt to change your balance of productive and non-productive time (so you have more time for what you want)
- Methods to stay motivated
- Techniques to deal with overwhelming projects
- And more!

Pick up your copy today and change your workdays from lackluster to positive and productive!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lucky Leaf Media
• Release date: Mar 13, 2014
• ISBN: 9781632300058

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Introduction

Today’s professional climates are fast-paced, complex, and rapidly changing. Professionals are constantly beset by a range of seemingly conflicting objectives and assignments. We’re all too familiar with objectives that change on a daily or hourly basis, coupled with meetings that introduce new, seemingly garbled or confusing directions that can further confuse our situation. Many of us spend large portions of our day ruminating somewhat unpleasantly about the lack of communication between management and staff, or between team members.

If you are a member of the walking dead, just holding on for retirement to roll around, such frustrations are merely that – daily job frustrations.  But what if you aren’t?  What if you want increased productivity and a flourishing career? For an individual striving to increase her or his productivity in the professional field, such seemingly constant distractions and modifications to existing projects can quickly become overwhelming. How can you progress and advance professionally if anything you do requires a major overhaul the very next day?

Managers and corporate leaders often see this problem from the flip side. Often times, coordinating projects that involve many people requires massive compromises from one department or another. Business leaders must make this call, and many are accustomed to grumblings and complaints from staff members as a result. Getting things done as a manager does require a bigger-picture perspective, to be sure, and it’s not uncommon for people in these situations to feel overwhelmed by the forces at play.

Both situations are really two sides of the same coin. The larger reality is this: any business, corporation, et cetera, has a finite amount of resources available. Members of any staff are likely to see their resources slighted or undervalued by a decision that undoes some of their respective contribution to a project, while managers may become annoyed with certain departments or individuals for always complaining about necessary sacrifices.

The purpose of this book is to help guide all professionals towards greater levels of productivity and efficiency in the workplace. A few very simple habits can be adopted for exactly this purpose. None of them are very difficult, at least at first glance. Remember, old habits die hard, and it might be safer to take a period of several work weeks to master each productivity technique, but all of them will greatly increase your workplace efficiency.

Your Path to Productivity

You begin these exercises by assessing your own outlook on work. What, for example, do you enjoy about it? Do you consider yourself a successful person? If you do, try to say why. How a person feels about his or her work is critical to one’s productivity for this reason: the better we understand what we want out of a career, the better we will be able to go after it. Consider your coworkers in general. Some of us genuinely enjoy many of the people we work with, others can’t stand them, and all the rest of us fall somewhere in between. Attitude may not be absolutely everything, but it certainly makes all the difference when trying to become more productive, especially in the standard chaos of a day at work.

This is no small challenge. But success is all about learning and attitude - it’s not that life’s winners and losers are born that way. It’s not that certain people just have a magical ability to accomplish whatever they set out to do. Everything worth doing and achieving in life takes courage, dedication, patience, and a positive attitude. That said, there are ways to learn how to become more productive in your life. No one is born inherently knowing how to accomplish their largest dreams. Certainly, an occasional person will figure it out on his or her own. They are the big successes we aspire to be, and it’s possible, with a little mental adjustment and motivation, to embark on that journey. Increasing your workplace productivity requires you to plan with precision, learn with goal-oriented purpose, and accept temporary setbacks with grace and a playful attitude.

Success, One Day at a Time

Very few people on this earth manage to go to sleep at night having accomplished everything they set out to do that day. If they have, it’s a good bet they haven’t aspired to complete much to begin with. Do yourself a favor now and try to remember the last time you went to bed satisfied that you’d accomplished a sizeable fraction of what you’d set out to on a given day. It may take a few moments, but try to remember a day when things went well, and perhaps only a minor task or two fell through the cracks of our best intentions.

Now consider your days in general. What is different about your lackluster days and those that really shine as successes? Was it luck? Did everything just fall into place without a single hitch? Were you driven by some desire to accomplish your tasks on the better day, while remaining generally uninspired on others? Perhaps, knowing the next day would be filled to the brim with daunting chores, you made a mental schedule of everything that would happen, and stuck to it the next day.

It is possible, with practice and patience, to manage day to day tasks with consistently higher levels of success, given the right understanding both of what happens when we are doing things right and what happens when we are not quite so task-oriented as we ought to be. Lost time adds up to minutes every hour, hours every day. If you practice the tips presented below, you can reasonably expect to experience an abundant increase in productivity. In less time than you’d imagine, these positive changes beget themselves in a self-encouraging fashion. Ending the day positively and successfully is a wonderful feeling, and will promote the same attitude and sense of direction in the next day, and the next, and so on. After all, wouldn’t you love to begin every day with a set plan of action, a method for avoiding road blocks, and an overall sense of how today’s productivity will enhance the next? The amount of time saved in a given day can invariably be used in turn to complete further assignments and perhaps assume even more responsibilities in the workplace.

Increasing your workplace productivity represents a commitment, and the more